{"id":3251,"date":"2021-02-08T10:08:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T01:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/?p=3251"},"modified":"2021-02-08T11:19:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T02:19:57","slug":"balan-wonderworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/08\/balan-wonderworld\/","title":{"rendered":"Balan Wonderworld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are thrilled to announce that the engineering team at CRI Middleware has developed a special video playback technology to support the upcoming game <a href=\"https:\/\/balanwonderworld.square-enix-games.com\/en-us\/\">Balan Wonderworld<\/a> (you can read the full press release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cri-mw.co.jp\/newsrelease\/2021\/210128NR_e.pdf\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Developed by the Balan Company &#8211; a spin-off of Square Enix -, Balan Wonderworld is a wondrous action-platformer themed around a mysterious musical theatre. The stars of the show use special abilities from a multitude of characterful costumes as they adventure in the bizarre and imaginary land of Wonderworld.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"\n    margin: 0 auto;\n    display: block;\n\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210208_Balan-Wonderworld2.png\" alt=\"20210208_Balan Wonderworld2\" width=\"500\" height=\"268\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210208_Balan-Wonderworld2.png 500w, https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210208_Balan-Wonderworld2-300x161.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since the appearance of the main character varies greatly, the in-game movies needed to reflect these changes, which would normally have led to a drastic increase in movie data size. To avoid this, CRI Middleware provided a customized version of Sofdec2, our video encoding and playback solution, including a multi-character feature, that allowed to reduce the size of the video data needed by 60%!<\/p>\n<div  style=\"\n    width: 600px;\n    margin: 0 auto;\n    display: block;\nmargin-bottom:25px;\n\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.criware.com\/en\/products\/sofdec2.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210208_Balan-Wonderworld3.jpg\" alt=\"20210208_Balan Wonderworld3\" width=\"1280\" height=\"568\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210208_Balan-Wonderworld3.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210208_Balan-Wonderworld3-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210208_Balan-Wonderworld3-768x341.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20210208_Balan-Wonderworld3-1024x454.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.criware.com\/en\/products\/sofdec2.html\">Sofdec2<\/a> is a high-quality and feature-rich movie playback system. It leverages the full capabilities of each platform and allows your game to seamlessly mix movie playback and gameplay, by offering many features such as: simultaneous playback of videos, transparency, subtitles, display on 3D surfaces, and more! Do not hesitate to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.criware.com\/en\/contact\/index.html\">contact us<\/a> if you believe that your game could benefit from such features.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, we encourage you to download the <a href=\"https:\/\/balanwonderworld.square-enix-games.com\/en-us\/trial\/\">demo version of Balan Wonderworld<\/a>, available on PS5, PS4, Switch, Xbox Series X\/S, Xbox One, and Steam (availability may vary based on your region). The full game is slated for release on Match 26<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are thrilled to announce that the engineering team at CRI Middleware has developed a special video playback technology to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sofdec"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3251"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3266,"href":"https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions\/3266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.criware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}